page_title: Trams in Mandalay
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Trams in Mandalay / History
caption_attribution_description: English: «Car barns — Mandalay Electric Co.» (original caption) Identifier: streetrailwayrev14amer (find matches) Title: The street railway review Year: 1891 (1890s) Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association Subjects: Street-railroads Publisher: Chicago&#160;: Street Railway Review Pub. Co Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: lectric Co. was incorporated in London in Octo-ber, 1902, with a capital of fjoo,ooo. .Actual work was commencedin December, 1902, by Dick, Kerr &amp; Co., Ltd., and the first car wasmoved by electrical power on June 17th, 1904. The center of thetramway system has been placed at the new Zegyo bazaar, fromwhich the tramway radiates in three branches, one leading to tlieshore, where steamers embark their pa^seiisers, the second running feeders consist of solid soft drawn copper wire, carried on specialhigh resistance toggles clamp insulators, which are in tvirn boltedto substantial malleable iron brackets attached to the poles. At sev-eral points along the route these feeders are tapped by insulatedcables which are connected to the main feeder switches in switchpillars fi.xcd on the sidewalk. The rolling stock consists of z^ electric motor cars of the singledeck, open, cross-bench type, built by the Electric Railway &amp;Tranuva\ CarriaE;o Wl^rk-;. l.tii, Preston. The car bodies are .^5 Text Appearing After Image: -MANIl.M.AV EI.ECTRlr CO. to the Arakan Pagoda, and the third leading to the Court House.The tramways have a length of 7 miles, double track throughout.The rails arc 6 in. deep with a IA in. groove, laid to a gage of 3 ft.6 in., in 45-ft. lengths. The rails are double spiked to hard woodsleepers, which are laid at 2 ft. 9 in. centers, the wMioIe being laidon a ballasted bed. The joints are of the plain type, secured with Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
context_page_description: The Trams in Mandalay were owned and operated by the Mandalay Electric Company, which was incorporated in London in October 1902 with a capital of £ 200,000.
context_section_description: The construction began in December 1902 by Dick, Kerr & Co., and the first car was moved electrically on 17 June 1904. From the center at Zegyo bazar the tramway radiated in the following three branches:
  To the shore, where the steamers embarked their passengers
  To the Arakan Pagoda
  To the Court House
  The track had a gauge of 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) and a length of 7 miles (11 km), electrified double track throughout. The rails were 6 inches (152 mm) high with a 1.5-inch (38 mm) groove, laid at 45-foot (13.72 m) lengths. The rails were double spiked onto hardwood sleepers, which had been laid on a ballast bed.
  The rolling stock consisted of 24 electric motor cars. These were of the single deck, open, cross bench type, built by the Electric Railway & Tramway Carriage Works in Preston, Lancashire. The car bodies were 24 feet 4.5 inches (7,430 mm) in length and about 6 feet (1,830 mm) wide and provided seats for 48 passengers. The bogies were made by Brush and their wheels driven by two Dick, Kerr & Co. standard 25B traction motors, each capable of delivering approximately 28 hp (21 kW) and could be braked in emergency by specially arranged resistors. The roof frames were composed entirely of teak, covered by cotton laid in a wet coat of white paint. They had electric headlights with 100 V.
  The power house with three Babcock & Wilcox water tube boilers with a working pressure of 160 pounds per square inch (1,100 kPa) was built in 78th street alongside the necessary offices, car sheds and repair shops.
  The track and overhead cables were severely damaged during the air raid of 3 April 1942 and subsequently were dismantled.
caption: Car barns of the Mandalay Electric Company
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